November AFS Chapter Meeting

513 West Pontaluna Road,Norton Shores MI 49444

09 November, 2021

Description

Cindy Larsen will speak to us about what the Muskegon area has accomplished and where it is going. Cindy Larsen is President and CEO of the Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce. She oversees an advocacy and community development organization with over 1,250 members. The Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber has won numerous state and national awards for overall programing and communications. Cindy has served on a number of regional and national boards and councils. She has been involved a reinventing a waterfront community, marketing to the cruise ship industry and promoting the great art and great outdoors of the Muskegon Lakeshore. She is a strong advocate of Michigan’s Blue Economy. Cindy graduated from Central Michigan University, majoring in media communications. She spent a number of years marketing the State of Michigan in the Michigan Economic Development Office before moving to the Lakeshore Chamber. Thanks to Allied Mineral Products for sponsoring tonight's meeting! Our organization is not for profit.  We are part of the American Foundry Society, a national organization, and focus on making the foundry industry in western Michigan strong and prosperous.  Our main efforts are: 1.  Organize monthly meetings to bring foundries, vendors and related persons together to promote the exchange of knowledge and resources. 2.  Promote understanding of the foundry industry by going to local schools and colleges to present the benefits and challenges of the foundry industry in the local community and the national economy. 3.  Raise funds through the monthly meetings and our annual golf outing to distribute as scholarships and stipends to local students and as funds to support the industrial arts foundry and metallurgical programs at local high schools and colleges.